 | 1901 - 604 Seiten
...slave-owner ; Lord Dartmouth, one of the most religious statesmen of the century, declared that we could not allow the Colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation ; and Newton, the evangelist, who was at one time the captain of a slave ship, said that he never knew... | |
 | 1823 - 704 Seiten
...answered it on all the grounds of justice by the following declaration: and humanity ; but ' We cannot allow the Colonies , to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' And this was in 1774- !" P. 27. After the above expression of our opinions, it is almost needless to... | |
 | Joseph Foster Barham - 1823 - 96 Seiten
...the Earl of Dartmouth, then president of the Board, answered by the following declaration: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And this was in 1 774 ! * The conduct of this town, with regard to the Slave It is presumed, after... | |
 | 1824 - 470 Seiten
...Earl of Dartmouth, then president of the Board, answered by the following declaration: ' We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.' And this was in 1774!" The continuation of the Slave trade, having thus been forced upon the West Indian... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 782 Seiten
...Colonies, nnd that it has been declared by the Ministers of ihr Crown, that it would not be 'allowed to the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial and necessary to the Mother Country.1 " That various Acts have bet- n passed by the Legislature of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1825 - 576 Seiten
...the Earl of Dartmouth, then president of the board, answered by the following declaration, We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation. And this was in 1774 ! It is presumed, »after this, not many persons will be disposed to contend,... | |
 | Sir Robert Wilmot Horton - 1826 - 132 Seiten
...the Earl of Dartmouth, then President of the Board, answered by the following declaration: "We cannot allow the Colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation.'' And this was in 1774! Such are the statements and reasonings which appear to belong to a practical... | |
 | Thomas Southey - 1827 - 568 Seiten
...Earl of Dartmouth, the president of the board, answered by the following declaration:—" We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation." Governor Keith " stated with precision," this year, that the population of Jamaica consisted of 12,737... | |
 | Alexander Barclay - 1827 - 596 Seiten
...all the grounds of justice swered by the following deand humanity ; but claration : — " We cannot allow the colonies to check or discourage, in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nation." And this was in 1774 ! ' It is presumed, after this, not many persons will be disposed to contend,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1827 - 794 Seiten
...earl of Dartmouth, then President of the Board, answered by the following declaration : ' We caunot allow the colonies to check or discourage in any degree a traffic so beneficial to the nution; and this was in 1774; the imposition of slavery therefore being the act and deed of the British... | |
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We cannot allow the colonies to check, or discourage in any degree, a traffic so beneficial to the nation. 
